Politicalprof

January 31, 2012

shizumataka asked: What books would you recommend? Introductory and Advanced? :)

Well, I’ll open this to the followers out there. I think a few are quite useful:

—Hedrick Smith, The Power Game.
—Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
—John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness
—Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make
—Paul Light, The President’s Agenda
—Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion
—Howard Gardner, Leading Minds
—Samuel Popkin, The Reasoning Voter
—Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
—Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution
—Kahnemann and Tversky, Judgment Under Uncertainty
—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
—Terry Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties
—Michael Herr, Dispatches
—Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
—Manfred Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
—David Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection

… as a start. Other thoughts?

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